Motivational Quotes

Death

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

- Milton, John

Best Quotes about Death

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Forster, Edward M.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.

Fielding, Henry

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Bayly, Joseph

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Publilius Syrus

10.

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

Melville, Herman

11.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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See in what peace a Christian can die.

Addison, Joseph

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Dyer, Wayne

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Haracourt, Edmond

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

Ann Radcliffe

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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

Cary, Joyce

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Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

Henley, William Ernest

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An evil life is a kind of death.

Ovid

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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Havner, Vance

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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Hesse, Hermann

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Greene, Graham

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Heidegger, Martin

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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Hallaj

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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Luther, Martin

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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

Duffecy, James

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Browne, Sir Thomas

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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman

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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

Butler, Samuel

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It is natural to die as to be born.

Bacon, Francis

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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Maclaren, Alexander

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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

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If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Lewis, C. S.